Autumn Cavender Wilson began her art journey as an expectant mother focused on her heritage and tradition. Trained in traditional Dakota quillwork, she is now creating exploratory art she calls generative quillwork.
Granite Falls Advocate Tribune
Nature holds beauty from canopy to floor in the woods of Minnesota. The prairie spans the expanse of the horizon line, for most, fading into endless untrackable miles of the unexplored. ‘Untrackable’ and ‘unexplored’ aren’t possibilities to local artist, writer, and forager Nicole Zempel. Capturing nature in its most natural and unseeable forms is simply her jam and if you have followed her growing career it s clear to see, this artist has put in the work to garner a Platinum record.
Zempel uses a unique mix of mushroom spore prints, writings and nature photography to tell the stories of the forests and prairies of southwest Minnesota. Her work has exhibited in multiple locations in Granite Falls and Zempel received a SMAC Emerging Individual Artist Grant in 2020 to spread her experiences even farther. Nicole is also a true educator, who teaches and shares her craft openingly through numerous community classes and video streams on fungi